Chime and strike clock



Aug. 14, 1923. 1,465,090

' w. E. PORTER CHIME AND STRIKE CLOCK Filed June 15. 1922 v 1 Patented Aug. 14, 1923.

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WILSON E. PORTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO NEW HAVEN CLOCK 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

CHIME AND STRIKE CLOCK.

Application filed June 15, 1922. Serial No. 568,419.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILSON E. PORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county ofrNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chime and Strike Clocks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1, a rear view of a clock provided with my improved featherweight, hammeropcrating links, the door opening into the back of the clock-case being removed.

Fig. 2, a view, partly in end elevation and partly in vertical transverse section, of the clock on anenlarged scale. 7

Fig. 3, a detached, broken view of one of my featherweight hammer-operating links.

Fig. 4:, a broken view thereof, partly in edge elevation and partly in section, and showing its upper end as suspended from the end of a hammer-lifting arm of a strikemechanism.

My invention relates to an improvement in chime and strike clocks, the object being to provide anti-rattling, non-resonant connections between the hammers and the means whereby the same are operated.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in the employment of featherweight, flat, sheet-metal links for connecting the hammers and the hammer-lifting means of a clock.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employ a plurality of very thin, flat links 5 depending upon their width for their strength, and made of metal 'so exoeedingly thin that they have too little ponderability to rattle or audibly vibrate, but, at the same time, are suflicient in tensile strength to affect the lifting of the hammers of the clock. As shown, each of the links 5 is formed at its upper end with a perforation 6, by means of which it is suspended from the hammer-lifting arms 7 of any approved chime or strike mechanism. The lower ends of the links are formed with long slots 8 and transversely slit as at 9 for the application of the links to loops 10 formed. in horizontally-arranged hammerarms 11 carrying hammers 12 arranged in this instance to respectively strike upon a gang of horizontally-arranged rod-gongs 13 mounted at one end in a mounting-base 14 secured by a mounting flange 15 to the bottom 16 of the clock-case 17.

Heretofore, the hammer-lifting means employed in such clocks have consisted of chains or wire links, the action of which has been accompanied by more or less rattling, and disturbing resonance. These objections are entirely avoided by the use of my featherweight links, which, as stated, are so light that their concussion produces no noise and results in no audible vibration.

I claim:

In a clock, the combination with a gang of horizontally-arranged rod-gongs, of horizontally arranged hammer arms therefor, hammers carried by the said arms, hammerlifting means, and featherweight or imponderable, relatively wide, thin sheet-metal links connecting the said hammer-lifting means and hammers, whereby rattling and resonance in the operation of the hammers are avoided In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILSON E. PORTER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR, MALooLM P. NICHOLS. 

